UEFA Champions League Goal King Luis Suarez had waited long enough. In three seasons with Ajax he had made the UCL group stage just once. In three with Liverpool, he hadn’t made it at all.
SOURCE:-Ajayi Jamiu | Topup9ja Staff
Come 2014 the Uruguayan was regarded among the finest no.9’s in the world game after topping the scoring charts in England with 31 goals 33 Premier League matches, yet he had just a single UCL group-stage goal to his name.
Suarez joined Barcelona that summer and immediately set about making up for lost time. Spearheading Barca’s famed MSN forward line alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar, Suarez bagged 7 goals in 10 games to inspire the Catalans to the UEFA Champions League title in 2014-15.
He opened his UCL account for Barcelona against APOEL on November 25 2014. It was his just his second in the tournament, scored 4 years, 1 month, and 16 days after his first UCL goal, scored for Ajax against Auxerre in 2010.
His last in the 2014-15 campaign was the vital goal in Barca’s 3-1 final victory over Juventus, showing his predatory instincts to restore his side’s lead by darting in and firing home from close range after Gianluigi Buffon could only parry a fierce drive from Messi.
This season the 29-year-old has flown at of the traps, grabbing six more UCL goals in just seven appearances, and is well on his way to bettering his personal-best 7 goals in a single campaign.
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Suarez has taken Barca to another level since his arrival at Camp Nou, his directness adding the cutting edege to a side that had previously faced accusations they over-elaborated in front of goal.
"The attacking potential of Suarez is an added plus for Barca," Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone told Goal last season. "Suarez gives them the aggression that is so important in the attacking third,"
That aggression has at times boiled over but since arriving in Barcelona Suarez is making headlines only with his feet – mostly his right, which has fired in 10 of his 14 UCL goals to date, with all but one having been converted from inside the box.
Six of his strikes have arrived in the vital knockout-stages of the tournament, including both in Barca’s vital 2-1 last-16 first-leg victory over Manchester City last season. He followed up that brace with another, striking twice in Paris to secure what proved an unassailable lead 3-1 over Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals.
This month he was back at it again, striking a wonderful volley in Barca’s last-16 victory over Arsenal to earn a nomination for the UEFA Champions League Goal of the Week, presented by Nissan.
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He took his time getting here, and had to wait even longer for a proper crack at football’s greatest club competition, but Luis Suarez has wasted no time in establishing himself as a UCL Goal King.
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